10:30 PM,
Mar. 10, 2014

Written by

Joey Garrison
| jgarrison@tennessean.com

Jairo Robles didn't even bother applying to the University of Tennessee system after graduating from Nashville's McGavock High School in 2008.

"It's a well-known fact within the immigrant community that, for example, UT-Knoxville doesn't let undocumented students in," said Robles, who came to the United States with his family from Guatemala when he was 11.

"It's like a ban, even though they say it isn't. You know that if you apply, you're not going to get in." ...